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Show I auce that the Academy would do all It i c ould to further the work of t lie uew commercial club. In the evening a largely attended meeting wan held In the Academy, ; when Profs. C'alne, Merrill and White I made short but Instructive talks. The visit of the train to the county waa of great value to alt who uw the exhibit and heard the talks. That leople are Interested and anxious to learn was shown by the large attendance attend-ance at every session. From Oasis the train went to Modena, Mllford and Ixs Vega and then went Into Juab and I'tah counties. i ' THE DEMONSTRATION TRAIN. The farmers' demonstration train I sent out by the Salt Lake Route under ! the management of a number of the staff of the Agricultural College, ar-. ar-. rived In Delta Thursday morning. I Early in the forenoon the eople began , to come Into town from the surrounding surround-ing country and during the day turit ' less than 600 peopl visited the cars of exhibits and listened to the talks i given by the professors. The Hinckley ! band came up and entertained the public pub-lic with music during the day. In the afternoon the hall was crowded crowd-ed with an interested audience to listen to addresses by Prof. Lewis Merrill, Douglas White and Ben Eld-ridge. Eld-ridge. At !i o'clock a lunch was nerved I V I i J PROF. L. A. MERRILL the visitors and a number of the citf-zens citf-zens at which short talks were made by Douglas White, Jas. A. Melville, Prof. Merrill, Ben Eldrldge. Frank Copenlng, Prof. Caine, Frank Beckwith, Joseph Flnllnson, John Steel and Prof, flowllng. A largely attended meeting waa also held In the evening at which Profs. Catne and Merrill spoke. On Friday the train was at Oasis and during the forenoon fully 400 people visited the train, saw the exhibit and heard. Prof. Cane give an exposition on live stock. In the afternoon the visitors were taken to Deseret where Messrs. White, Eldrldge and Merrill spoke to a crowded home. After this meeting the visitors were taken to Hinckley, where, at 6 o'clock, a banquet was served at the Academy under the auspices of the faculty and the Bonneville Commercial Club. The banquet was prepared by the first year crass In domestic science and certainly d!d them credit. Mayor Blake Introduced Intro-duced Principal Stevens as toast mas. ter. W. F. Pratt responded to the tcmst of the Commercial Club, outlining outlin-ing some of the things It proposed to do. Virgil Kelly responded to the toast of the Bonneville Commercial Club, which be said had swallowed the Hinckley Club, but which would advance the Interests of all three towns. John Reeve was Introduced as one of the progressive farmers of the county and he spoke of the Improvements Improve-ments that had been made over pat methods. N. B. Dresser of the Chronicle responded re-sponded to the toast of the press, and spoke of the things the paper was especially Interested In securing elementary ele-mentary agriculture in the public schools, better roads, a farm demonstrator demon-strator and a farmers' association. He closed with a poem. "My Millard County Farm," which, by request. Is publlisbed elsewhere In this Issue. John T. Calne spoke on Industrial education.' and Prof. Merrill on water logged lands. Douglas White gave a very clever talk on the co-operation of the railway rail-way and the fanner, the value the new commercial club could be to the com-Tunlty. com-Tunlty. and the new union of the water and the soil that would Uke Mace through drainage. . Jacob Mawley gave aa amusing experience ex-perience while a missionary, and Prin-:lpal Prin-:lpal Stevens' closed with the assur- |
